NadavK / phidgets

A service that exposes an http interface to manage Phidget devices

PhidgetS - A Phidget Service

Provides an http interface to control and receive events from Phidget Devices.

Installation

Project

1. Download the files to /home/pi/phidgets/

   1. Create log folder: mkdir /home/pi/phidgets/log

2. pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install Phidget22 library for Python:

   sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev -y
   https://www.phidgets.com/docs/OS_-_Linux#Programming
       sudo wget -qO- http://www.phidgets.com/gpgkey/pubring.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
       echo 'deb http://www.phidgets.com/debian stretch main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/phidgets.list
       sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install libphidget22 -y
   https://www.phidgets.com/docs/Language_-_Python_Linux_Terminal
       download latest: https://www.phidgets.com/downloads/phidget22/libraries/any/Phidget22Python/
       in the Phidget22Python directory: python setup.py install
   

Service

sudo ln -s /home/pi/phidgets/phidgets.service /etc/systemd/system/phidgets.service
sudo systemctl enable phidgets.service

The service will automatically start at system boot.

• To manually start: sudo service phidgets start
• To manually stop: sudo service phidgets stop

logs: journalctl -u phidgets -f

Sainsmart USB Relays

USB permission

sudo bash -c "printf 'SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\", ATTR{idVendor}==\"1a86\", ATTR{idProduct}==\"7523\", GROUP=\"pi\" MODE=\"0666\"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usb-perms.rules"
sudo udevadm control --reload ; sudo udevadm trigger

License

Licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License - see LICENSE for details

Acknowledgments

• Many thanks to @Patrick at Phidgets